Join us for a conversation about the history of the landsmanshaften, as well as an exploration of how burial societies at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in New York City became the only remaining pieces left of these original communities.
In this interactive zoom workshop, QCC English department members Ilse Schrynemakers and Susan Lago will introduce participating colleagues to the discussion-based pedagogy of the Great Questions Foundation, founded by faculty at Austin Community College.
Join us for a conversation with acclaimed poet Ilya Kaminsky, whose poems bear witness to our times and create a space for empathy and compassion in resistance to oppression.
In this presentation, Michael Shara, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) professor and curator of the 2002 landmark AMNH exhibit, “Einstein,” will discuss Einstein’s experiences as a refugee and his political and humanitarian activism.
Dr. Natasha Zaretsky, author of "Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina" (Rutgers University Press, 2021), explores new generations of Holocaust memory and their significance for democracy and the public sphere.
Dr. Regina Kazyulina and Dr. Christopher Mauriello, Directors of Salem State University’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, discuss the teachers who did everything in their power to ensure the children’s stories and voices would not forgotten.
Dr. Laurel Leff, author of "Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life and Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale University Press, 2019), introduces how academic institutions in the United States undertook these fraught choices.
Join Dr. Raymond Codrington, Weeksville’s President and CEO, and Irvin Weathersby, Jr., author of "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space," for a conversation about memory work at cultural heritage institutions.
Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, discusses the system of fear and control installed by the Nazis, its impact on the national cultural landscape, and artists’ strategies of survival.
